IP: Google unveils huge archive of USENET back to 1981

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:07:13 -0800
> From: Brad Templeton <brad () templetons com>
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
>
> Google today announced on http://groups.google.com that they have expanded
> their USENET archive back to May of 1981.   It's not absolutely complete
> but I wasn't even aware that some of this stuff still existed.  I'm also
> a little embarassed at times to see what the 20-years-younger me would
> sometimes write.
>
> You can have an interesting day in the way-back machine and experience
> much deeper history directly.   Google has also put up an index of
> some interesting events in history at:
>
>         http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
>
> One thing I'll be able to do now, perhaps with help from others, is
> index my "history of the net" which I wrote in 1989.  This "history" such
> as it is, is at:
>
>         http://www.templetons.com/brad/nethist.html
>
> It consisted of one-line summaries from my brain of important events for
> USENET and online discussion that I had seen or participated in.  Now
> I can turn those one-line references into URLs, allowing historians to
> produce a true history from it.
>
> For extra credit:  Find the first post of Dave Farber's they have in
> the archive, about a mailing list for Onyx users.   Hardly Dave's
> first message, but the recorded world is growing.

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